Lawyers turn to romcoms in fight for rule of law in Poland
by Jennifer Rankin in Brussels from on (#5SEZ4)
Instead of drafting legal papers, award-winning group make short films intended to explain assault on judiciary
It was a summer day in 2017 when Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram, a 34-year-old lawyer, heard a crazy idea.
She had been messaged by a legal acquaintance, Micha Wawrykiewicz, who like her was worried about changes that Poland's nationalist government was introducing to the judicial system. He wondered how they could convince people that the independence of the judiciary was not some abstract nicety but the firm ground underpinning democracy.
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